Divining without Seeds : : The Case for Strengthening Laboratory Medicine in Africa /

Divining without Seeds : : The Case for Strengthening Laboratory Medicine in Africa / / Iruka N. Okeke.

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Infectious disease is the most common cause of illness and death in Africa, yet health practitioners routinely fail to identify causative microorganisms in most patients. As a result, patients often do not receive the right medicine in time to cure them promptly even when such medicine is available,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Okeke, Iruka N.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Power of Sight
  • 2. Fever: Is It Malaria?
  • 3. Fever: Beyond Malaria
  • 4. Drug Resistance
  • 5. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
  • 6. Detecting Covert Infection ahead of the Final Diagnosis
  • 7. Diagnostic Certainty and Disease Control
  • 8. Origins and Outlook of Diagnostic Insufficiency in Africa
  • Conclusion: The Feasibility of Laboratory Diagnosis in African Settings
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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